Dave Foley hosts "Celebrity Poker Showdown" but first rose to fame as one of The Kids in the Hall, a Canadian sketch comedy troupe.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Elizabeth Samet teaches literature to future Army officers at West Point. She tells Jim Fleming why her class reads Wilfred Owen and Homer, and what lessons they draw from the poetry.
Social critic Bill McKibben says we’re rushing through a momentous doorway into a new age of human evolution
David Hajdu recently wrote a controversial article for The New Republic about the legacy of Alan Lomax. Lomax and his father made field recordings of thousands of folk and blues songs including work by Leadbelly and Muddy Waters.
Getting words, quotes, even lines of verse inked under the skin is more common that you think. There’s even a name for it: Literary Tattoos
Dorie Greenspan tells Anne Strainchamps what's hot in haute baking circles, and what she cranks out for her neighbors and the elevator operators in her building in New York.
“I learned virtually nothing about mortality when I was in medical school,” Dr. Atul Gawande says. “I was terrible at knowing how to have a successful conversation with people facing terminal illness.” Gawande, author of the bestselling “Being Mortal,” is now trying to get people talking about better ways to live out the final chapter.
Chris Thomas King played blues legend Tommy Johnson in the film “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” His tune on the soundtrack won 3 Grammy Awards. King sees his music as a bridge between the worlds of hip hop and the Blues.
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